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DJ and producer Avalon Emerson is one of the leaders of techno’s new school, turning heads over the last few years with a series of rapturous records full of detail and melody.Avalon Emerson is from the desert. While she currently lives in Berlin, the music she produces comes from the dreamlike expanse and abstract textures of the Sonoran landscapes of Arizona. Her journey has taken her from that sunbaked state to the contemporary dance music mecca via a long stint in San Francisco, where she cut her teeth as a DJ in the city's storied warehouse party scene. In her DJ sets and productions now, she offers a timeless narrative that reflects a passion for the sound design of new wave, the futurism of techno, the soul of American house and the exuberance of rave. Though she's built up steam in 2015 from multiple sets at Panorama Bar, and globetrotting all around Europe and North America, she's just getting started, and continues to outdo herself with original productions released on labels like Shtum, Spring Theory, Icee Hot, and her own DJ tool edit pool, the Cybernedits series.

Octo Octa is one of North America’s most exciting new electronic recording artists. Octo Octa’s music reveals the most emotive and human aspect of house. Naturally, her tracks appeal to the dance floor, with rhythm an integral element, but it is her arpeggios, arrangements and melodies that make her compositions glow with their own distinct light. After a ten year career to date, her sound and potential has been cultivated over time and is crystallized by the superb album, "Where Are We Going?", released on San Francisco label HNYTRX. Maya Bouldry-Morrison began her career on 100% Silk, the cult label based in Los Angeles to which she is still closely linked. At the time her music was somewhat darker, more dense and reflective. In several interviews she has told of the discomfort she felt at being locked in a male body she did not feel was her own. Her status as a transgender artist translates to her music in a subtle but palpable way, noticeable in several of her composition titles and her evolution towards more open and dynamic territories. Her visit to Celtronic coincides with an artistic purple patch, after deservedly receiving high acclaim for the album and her subsequent EP, "Adrift". These new classics will act as the basis for her performance at Celtronic, in the form of an analogue live set that typically leaves plenty of room for improvisation and unexpected sounds to manifest.

Or:la's story has followed a different trajectory to most. After moving to Liverpool in 2012 from a small town in Northern Ireland, a fascination of collecting old electronic records soon side tracked her media production degree and paved the way for what was to come. She first burst onto the production scene in 2016 after her debut release, 'UK Lonely' on Hotflush Recordings; a four track EP that flaunts enviable range and seems to contradict the producer’s youthful years. After a string of successive releases on Hotflush, 2017 saw the birth of vinyl-only imprint 'Deep Sea Frequency', co-founded by Or:la which has since released an eclectic mix of EPs from the likes of Pépe, DJ Seinfeld and herself. It will continue to put out music from both budding under-rated musicians and established producers on the scene. A vast knowledge of various genres and tempos is what separates Or:la from many other young DJ's at the moment; aptly summed up by Thump as "One of the most underrated DJs on the UK circuit at the moment, and one of those selectors blessed with the ability to really tell a story." When playing her revered 'all night long' sets, Or:la’s sound channels a nostalgic broken beat vibe, spanning chuggy acid numbers to skippy percussive sounds and more techno-leaning four to the floor. Or:la's growing success as a dynamic producer and genre-spanning selector has, in 2017 alone, seen her gain a residency at the Warehouse Project in Manchester, a bimonthly show on NTS Radio and win DJ Mag's 'Breakthrough DJ of the year'.